Liturgies
Our inclusive language liturgies set the structure and theme of Sunday morning worship. All liturgies are written by the Celebration Circle Mission Group.
Click here for an archive of our liturgies.
Feel free to use what is helpful from these liturgies. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and cite the URL.
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ENTRANCE REFLECTION Maybe you will not be called – Laura Martin
ENTRANCE REFLECTION Christ climbed down Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from A Coney Island of the Mind
ENTRANCE REFLECTION Hope is an orientation of the heart… The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is… [Without hope] it is impossible to live in dignity and meaning much less find the will for the ‘hopeless enterprise’ which stands at the beginning of most good things. Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, pp. 181-182
ENTRANCE REFLECTION In the struggle to become Christ’s Body, we have only one weapon and one alone: Love…. Love is what first softened your heart and mine. Love brought us into the struggle. Love alone has the power to break hearts open so that we will all lay down our defenses and join in the cosmic movement toward a new heaven, a new earth, in a Holy City whose foundation is Love. Gordon Cosby,
ENTRANCE REFLECTION Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the Alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight. Joan Chittister, Uncommon Gratitude2023 Epiphany: Showing the Way
With the coal held to your lips,
The rush of wings of
Ambitious angels
Covering you. …
But maybe you will be called by
Fallen mustard seeds and
Open-eyed dreams.
Maybe you will be called by
The ordinary and the striking,
The places where your heart catches
More than once. …
Maybe you will know that
Your call is no less real
Because it comes with
Seeds in your hand
And the taste of fruit in your mouth,
With a sound so soft
It could have just been the breeze,
But wasn’t.
Associate Pastor
Rock Spring Congregational UCC, Arlington, VA
2022 Advent: Sleepers Wake
from His bare Tree
this year
and softly stole away into
some anonymous Mary’s womb again
where in the darkest night
of everybody’s anonymous soul
He awaits again
an unimaginable
and impossibly
Immaculate Reconception
the very craziest
of Second Comings
2022 Jubilee: Deep Hope
2022 Recommitment: Becoming Faithful
Seized by the Power of a Great Affection: Meditations on the Divine Encounter, p. 412022 Summer: Faith in Hard Times
